How to Use shock therapy in a Sentence

shock therapy

noun
  • But the response was to have to give her electric shock therapy.
    — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The shock therapy treatment has faced legal challenges for years.
    — O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 1 June 2026
  • Emma was kept away from her children for two years and received endless forms of electric shock therapy.
    — Andrew Sciallo, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2024
  • Concern grew over reports of poor treatment, abuse, lobotomies and electric shock therapy.
    — Michael Smolens Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Nostrums such as shock therapy and stem cells rose and fell, dividing the community in their wake.
    — Jason Mast Reprints, STAT, 30 June 2023
  • He was hospitalized for six months and subjected to shock therapy.
    — Larry Blumenfeld, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The Perfection Years of shaving her head for shock therapy can do quite a number on a gal’s hair.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 24 June 2019
  • Try electric shock therapy, drugs that render men impotent, or maybe even a lobotomy.
    — Jane M. Von Bergen, Philly.com, 1 Oct. 2017
  • That solution is the ultimate shock therapy for putting the dollar in command for a foreign nation.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Unlike shock therapy, which jolts the whole brain, TMS penetrates only an inch or so.
    — Gregory Mone, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2012
  • So the shock therapy of that earlier era might be unnecessarily painful.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 12 July 2022
  • Psychiatric treatments of the past, such as lobotomies or shock therapy, failed to adequately protect patients.
    — Olivia Goldhill, Quartz, 16 Oct. 2020
  • North America’s largest bird is on the verge of extinction, and scientists are using shock therapy to give them a fighting chance.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2015
  • Kwarteng’s mini-budget appears to be creating a kind of supply-side economics shock therapy for Britain.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Rotenberg is the only facility in the nation to use shock therapy, which disability activists condemn as a form of abuse.
    — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Early images of patients undergoing shock therapy inform our fears.
    — Donald Antrim, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • The intimate scene is followed by a look at Malone, now with his normal facial art, standing by men in lab coats as Swift receives shock therapy.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 20 Apr. 2024
  • This gradualist recipe, intended to avoid the upheaval of past economic shock therapies, relied heavily on fresh credit to plug the deficit.
    — Ryan Dube, WSJ, 29 May 2018
  • And the intimacy here between this audience and this comedian differs from the national shock therapy from a few weeks before.
    — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Along with his sullen young assistant, Fiennes visits the asylums of the West Coast performing lobotomies and electric shock therapy.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
  • Because the problems are so large, shock therapy that increases numbers immediately might create a critical mass.
    — C. Brandon Ogbunu, Wired, 25 May 2021
  • Because Jack and friends know that addressing institutional barriers requires much more than shock therapy.
    — C. Brandon Ogbunu, Wired, 25 May 2021
  • The Yeltsin years would bring new freedoms but also economic shock therapy, chaos, corruption and hardship for many ordinary Russians.
    — The New York Times, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Some of the most extreme measures have included electric shock therapy, hormone regimens, physical abuse and internment.
    — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2021
  • In another, she is given botched electroconvulsive shock therapy without even a muscle relaxer.
    — Literary Hub, 1 July 2026
  • The practice has taken many forms historically, including shock therapy and hypnosis, but the most common form today is talk therapy, according to the study.
    — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 15 June 2022
  • Sunak’s decision not to extend a blanket furlough plan leaves unemployment headed for levels not seen since Thatcher implemented her shock therapy.
    — David Goodman, Bloomberg.com, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Rodriguez now runs through a weekly regimen of treatment that includes sitting in a type of hyperbaric chamber and undergoing shock therapy to regenerate his nerves.
    — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 7 May 2024
  • The ill effects of austerity measures Some countries in recent economic history which underwent shock therapy suffered for years.
    — Ron Insana, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2024
  • His parents increasingly relied on electricity—cardioversion for his father’s unreliable heart, shock therapy for his mother’s brain, a wire for self-awareness.
    — Thomas McGuane, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021

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